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south-east corner of the tank are the debris of a garhi or small fort, which appears to
have been a parallelogram of about 300 by 150 yards, enclosed by a massy wall with towers
at the corners. In the centre are two sunken platforms, with stone steps descending into
them, in which lie idols in all stages of decay; some of these were buried many feet under
a loose reddish soil having the appearance of decayed bark. Three of the best preserved
of these I took away, with the help of some Nagpur Dhangars, not one of the people of the
country daring to touch them. About 300 yards to the south of the garhi is another mound
of hillock of broken bricks, which I was told was the office of the Raja.To the west of
this, and all along the bank of the tank, the plain now covered with jungle- grass, and
here and there cultivated with gora dhan or highland rice by the Kols, is scattered with
bricks, showing that a substantial town or bazaar must have existed here."
Tickell was neither an archaeologist nor an iconographist. The Archaeological
Department had deputed Mr. Beglar who, after a close inspection, ascribed the origin of
the temples to the Seventh century A.D. A part of his observations may be quoted:
"The sculptures that exist are entirely Brahmanical with two exceptions. |
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